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"The Greatest" did really well in its first week, and that's both a joy and a relief. Many times over the more-than-a-year while I was watching or skimming shows, or cataloguing clips, or processing footage, or not working on the vid but thinking about it, I asked myself what I was doing-whether it was worth spending so much time on a single ( Read more... )

A year ago January,
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Hello! Guess what? The vid is DONE!

Sources: ~105, depending on how you count
Characters: ~230
Characters played by Tessa Thompson: 3
Character with the most appearances (4): Anissa Pierce from Black Lightning
Vids of this magnitude I am likely to ever make again: 0

One last question as I put together the vid posts for next weekend, when it will ( Read more... )

Fourteen months into this vidding project, a few weeks before the deadline, and I'm revisiting difficult questions in the hope of not doing something accidentally terrible. In this case, agonizing about whether I'm going to end up in hot water if I continue with plans to include certain Latinx characters/actors if the vid is described as being ( Read more... )

I just spent eight straight days on a work project, and as of five o'clock it's turned in and now it's time to remember how to do things for fun ( Read more... )

1. You know you've got the blues when you scoff at your own Mary Sue fantasy story from last year because there's no way those other characters would treat her as special.

2. The blues only present themselves sometimes, though. This weekend was generally lovely, including attending a Hanukkah party, heckling Fifty Shades Darker with
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U.S. politics has (have?) washed over my head again, as it does periodically, rising from the baseline fear and disappointment that mounted during election season and spiked in November.

I don't talk about it much here. This blog, and
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It's periodic crunch time at work, so a proper post / con report will have to wait a bit longer. For now:


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Today is Patriots' Day in Boston, a.k.a. Marathon Monday, a.k.a. the day most people in the city seem to have off from work and school except us. My usual commute is bisected by the marathon line, so I came home the long way tonight, through the city: a packed train of tourists, Sox and Bruins fans, and an international collection of runners in ( Read more... )

Oh, friends. You are fantastic. Within about 24 hours, 15 of 16 outstanding sources for this vid project, plus 8 new sources, had at least one volunteer, and your comments have already helped me refine the character spreadsheet ( Read more... )